Intel acquires computer-vision hardware maker Movidius

NEW YORK: In its bid to play a leading position in giving human-like sight to the 50 billion connected gadgets which can be projected by using 2020, Intel has received San Mateo-based computer vision hardware-maker Movidius.
“I’m excited to announce our pending acquisition of Movidius. With Movidius, Intel profits low-strength, excessive-overall performance SoC (System on a Chip) systems for accelerating computer imaginative and prescient programs,” Josh Walden, senior vice president and popular manager of Intel’s New Generation Institution said in a statement.Movidius is running with customers like Google and Lenovo to provide sight to clever devices inclusive of drones, security cameras, AR/VR headsets and greater.
“Our main VPU (vision Processing Unit) platform for on-tool vision processing mixed with Intel’s enterprise main intensity sensing answer (Intel RealSense Generation) is a winning mixture for self reliant machines that can see in three-D,” Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane said in a separate assertion.
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The ability to song, navigate, map and recognize both scenes and gadgets using Movidius‘ low-power and excessive-performance SoCs opens opportunities in areas in which warmness, battery lifestyles and form elements are key.
“Specially, we can appearance to installation the Technology across our efforts in augmented, digital and merged fact (AR/VR/MR), drones, robotics, digital security cameras and beyond,” Walden noted.